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Kundalini
By Eugene Halliday

(From an undated letter to Pamela Smith)

Kundalini is the totality of forces which for the sake of social equilibrium have been repressed, pushed down the spinal cord and stored at the basal plexus in the sacral area. What is allowed is stored in the head, and particularly in the forebrain, where it is kept in a state of relative readiness for social use.

Kundalini is very wise because it is the store house of the experiences of the life-force of all the generations of human protoplasm. Many of these experiences are of socially unacceptable nature and so are unknown to the socially conditioned mind. This Kundalini is wiser than the social, civilised mind can be. When Kundalini (the weaving of appetival power) is bought up by meditation into consciousness, there is released a mass of information of ancestral origin and this mass (which is sentient energy) may trigger processes in the nervous system, at different spinal levels, which may occur too quickly for assimilation by the ordinary processes of consciousness. Then one may experience sensations of light, hear sounds, etc of an unusual nature.

The important (thing) to remember is not to fall into the identification with any of the phenomena that one experiences, but to see them for what they are, just energy manifestations occurring in consciousness. Some of these manifestations derive from early experience inside the womb, before birth, others from earlier still.

The arousing of Kundalini not unusually results in the unlocking of previously suppressed unpleasant experiences of long ago. When this occurs it is useful to gather one’s consciousness together and enter into the stimulated record (engram, or imprint) and examine and re-evaluate its contents. By this one releases energy from long encapsulated state, and the information contained in this energy, and enters into one’s conscious knowledge-store.

It is better to see Kundalini for what it is (stored ancestral energy and information) than to embrace any fantastical view of it. There is enough magic in the fact. We do not need any fanciful versions of it. To be able to investigate the total ancestry of the human race is interesting enough, without having to put oneself into a state of high euphoria about it.

The more ‘sobre’ we are when investigating the contents of Kundalini, the wiser we shall become, for we shall then not distort our view of the phenomenon we encounter, or of other phenomena that accompany it. ‘Sobre’ investigation of spiritual realities is even more important than investigation of gross material things for at spiritual energy level everything is intensively dynamic and kinetic, while at gross level things tend to ‘stay put’ and changes only very slowly.

We are to remember that consciousness itself is a catalyst, that it tends to induce changes in things by its mere presence. Consciousness perceives the real pattern of things, their interrelations of form and function, and rearranges them whenever they have fallen into disorder.

At its top level consciousness has for its content the infinite eidetic field, the totality of basic geometric forms which constitute the patterns of all things of the phenomenal work, the hexonic sentient power field above which is only the volitional field of universal intentionality. To enter the volitional field in its pure form one must be volitionally reflexive, that is, able to turn one’s will back upon itself and to secure it not in an idea pattern, but in its own fully self-conscious awareness of its own volitionality.

It is one thing to reflect on a pattern of ideas. It is quite another to reflex or bend back one’s will upon itself so that one realises that one experiences is simply the product of one’s own will to phenomenalise one’s own invisible energy in order to create an interesting universe for oneself and for other reflex self-creators able to cooperate in the supreme act of cosmogenesis.